Peter Dutton:

The Prime Minister has caused a lot of pain to Australian families over the last three years. Will the Prime Minister join with me in cutting the price of petrol and diesel to save tradies, pensioners and families up to $28 a week instead of his 70 cent a day tax cut which doesn’t even come in for 15 months?

It’s not delivered with the energy you would expect.

Anthony Albanese:

“I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question and, of course, the Leader of the Opposition, I wonder if he gave that speech or that question when he was sitting in the Cabinet room when indexation of petrol was reintroduced in the 2014 budget?

I wonder… (INTERJECTIONS) I wonder if…

Michael Sukkar has a point of order that is not a point of order:

The Prime Minister can’t give us a history on 100 years of excise. That cannot be relevant to the question. (INTERJECTIONS) It does in the mean that, for example, the Prime Minister can talk about things that happened 100 years

Speaker Milton Dick has to tell everyone to “take a deep breath” which is like telling toddlers to stop crying. (The toddlers are more rational).

Albanese:

I was talking about the temporary – the temporary one-year decrease that they have said, they will put out there. The Morrison leftovers have adopted the policy of the Morrison Government… (INTERJECTIONS) ..just like they did in 2022, Mr Speaker, when in the budget in 2022, they brought in a temporary measure and then it disappeared. And then it disappeared. That’s what I’m asked about. And the reason why it’s at the level it is today is because of the legislation that they brought in (INTERJECTIONS) in 2014.

That is why it is the level it is at today.

But those opposite have a view where this morning… they’re out there having voted against tax cuts for every taxpayer yesterday… (INTERJECTIONS) ..they this morning have declared they are the first opposition to ever say, “If you elect us to Government, we will increase the taxes for every single taxpayer.” “Every single taxpayer” will pay more tax if they’re elected at the election in May. So what we know now is that they have four policies. They have a nuclear power plan of $600 billion that they have to find cuts for.

Then they have their lunches, their lunch policy… (INTERJECTIONS) We haven’t forgotten about that. And then they have the further cuts that they have spoken about – further cuts that they have spoken about, but now they have something else as well, Mr Speaker, because we know the only thing they don’t want to cut is people’s taxes. Not only do they not want to cut them, not only did they vote against them, what they want to do is actually to jack them up for every single taxpayer. An extraordinary policy from those opposite who just don’t get it who have not put forward a single – a single lasting cost-of-living plan and opposed every single measure we have put forward.